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Wai Lin Tse

Photographer Wai Lin Tse has captured my love for these kind of vases perfectly...I guess most of them are from West German Ceramics. {ps. would you like to win a lovely set of Holiday stationery click here}

Las Coleccionistas

{image from Las Coleccionistas, photography studio in Barcelona}
You probably understand how happy I am ... a healthy new born son and everything is going very well, after a week in the hospital it's fantastic to be back home ... I haven't had time yet to make some nice pictures for Bloesem, but will try and make some this week, luckily I already prepared some great posts the day before I went to the hospital which I would like to share with you this week and next week some very nice bloggers from all over the world will be showing you lovely guest posts here on Bloesem! 

Thank you all for your lovely comments, emails and wishing wells on Facebook! Slowly I will be trying to respond to your questions and emails, but please be patient with me as I'm spending a lot of time these days with my lovely sons, Lode and Kiet!

Las Coleccionistas is a photography studio based in Barcelona formed by three girl photographers. Their main commitment is to tell stories through their images, to achieve a natural, creative and spontaneous style that confers attitude, character and philosophy to their photos ... and I think they are doing just that with their beautiful photography ... recently they opened a studio in the heart of Barcelona to see their work for yourselves, but for those of you who don't go to Barcelona very often can have a look here in their etsy shop where you can buy some of their work as prints.

 

Pia Jane on the job

This beautiful image reminded me of how much I LOVE the color yellow ... the picture is part of the preparation for a shoot Pia Jane recently did for a I must say unknown to me and I think fairly new Dutch magazine called, Maria ...  on Pia's blog you can find some scenes behind the camera and the results, really nice!

The polaroid project

Last week I read a very touching post on Nectar&Light about how the very talented photographer Jen Altman and her husband have decided to make the  plunge...pack all their belongings and move to the country they had fallen in love with a couple of years ago...together with their daughters they are going to start a new life in Italy...I admire their courage, love the fact how they work on making their dreams come true and am very much inspired by their story...

Last weekend Jen wrote me an email telling me about another marvelous project she started recently...For the Love of Light:  a Tribute to the Art of Polaroid...a new book which will feature 25 awe inspiring Polaroid photographers - some have been shooting for years - some of them months - but what they have in common is an undeniable love and heartfelt affection for the art.  They cover five continents and 20 countries...the book will be published in July 2008...here you can read more about it. 

Donna Compton

Donna Compton is a designer based in the UK and she has just opened her Etsy shop and when I saw this print from an original photograph by her I knew I had to show it to you.

Donna's photographs feature a range of subjects from styled floral still life's incorporating vintage wallpapers and old fashioned flowers to unplanned finds on her travels such as an interior of a Paris bookshop or a London flea market. Donna also told me that whatever her subject she always looks for detail, colour and something a little unusual.

Polaroids

I just found out that Maditi has moved to another website, Maditi Photography. Most of you probably know that I'm a big fan of Maditi's work. The colors in her prints are always amazing. When I was living in Toronto I received two of her prints and I finally had a chance yesterday to bring them to a shop to have them framed. I can't wait to see the result. 

Another great photographer is Eshu. You can buy these beautiful prints at her Etsy shop. I also love to read her blog, Abstract the day.